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Artist: MOVE D & BENJAMIN BRUNN
Title: Songs From The Beehive
Label: SMALLVILLE (GERMANY)
Format: CD
Price: $17.00
Catalog #: SMALL 001CD
David Moufang aka Move D and Benjamin Brunn present their collaborative full-length, Songs From The Beehive. This is more than just another chapter in deepness and soul, it is an overwhelming experience that flows deeply and rises to the top. Appreciated by fans such as Ricardo Villalobos, Jus-Ed, Efdemin, DJ Koze, Jackmate and Smallville label chiefs Julius Steinhoff and Lawrence. Ambient clusters, warm grooves, and a mentally deep sound melt together and open a portal to another world of deepness. Besides a wide range of references -- deep Detroit house, dub, classical minimal music and even jazz and disco -- Songs From The Beehive is the very essence of these two uncompromising and unconventional artists. Working out a track could start with a loop of Brunn's Nord Modular or a Moog bass line from David Moufang, based on a sweet scape or just a clear sample. It is the warmth, deepness, the fluffy grooves and the sounds that make you feel as if you are diving into a sea of ambience and rhythm. Songs From The Beehive makes the collective dream come true -- to be shared by deep and open-minded people.


Artist: VA
Title: And Suddenly It's Morning
Label: SMALLVILLE (GERMANY)
Format: CD
Price: $17.00
Catalog #: SMALL 002CD
The Smallville label, founded in 2006, releases their first CD compilation. And Suddenly It's Morning has an incredible tracklist -- the CD and upcoming series of four 12"s features all-time favorite artists Lowtec, Dimi Angélis & Jeroen Search, STL, Sven Tasnadi, and Move D & Benjamin Brunn, plus newcomers Christopher Rau, Jacques Bon and Dionne -- and of course, label-bosses Julius Steinhoff and Lawrence. Starting with the deep, flowing "Something Like Wonderful" by Julius Steinhoff, you have the perfect warm intro to be followed by Christopher Rau's magically-grooving track, "Childhood." Lowtec's tribute to Manchester's "meandyou" party circle can be regarded as an anthem of the lowest delights. Steinhoff & Hammouda with Dionne, Move D & Benjamin Brunn and Bon & Rau are the next dream-teams of deepness and Tasnadi and Lawrence follow their own definition of classic and unique production. Dimi Angélis & Jeroen Search's "Our Life With The Wave," is a track based on Mike Huckaby's incredible sample library, and STL's "Neurotransmitting Clouds On The Secret Freeway" starts off as a thumping road-trip groover that gradually morphs into a wavering mirage of flanging synths. And Suddenly It's Morning proves that there still are fresh impulses and innovations possible in contemporary house music and beyond. The CD comes with a 16-page booklet designed by Stefan Marx, who is responsible for every piece of Smallville's beauty.


Artist: KARIMANI, DENIS
Title: Realtime Islandx
Label: SMALLVILLE (GERMANY)
Format: 12"
Price: $12.00
Catalog #: SMALL 002EP
With NDRU remix. "After his productions for labels like Dial, Num, Traum, Ladomat or Liebe*Detail, Denis Karimani aka Remute surprises the audience again with another unconventional masterpiece. Between the essence of minimal and the deepness of Detroit, 'Realtime Island' can be regarded as the first Smallville super-hit. A Detroitish chord sequence rises slowly up to explode but keeps its deep secret. Karimani's best friend and rave-mate NDRU (Liebe*Detail, Perspectiv) translates the unique musical language of the original into minimal -- his remix got the kind of hypnotic bassline you might miss in the minimal world so often. The 12" ends with a classical Karimani pumping a deep techno tune straight to your feet."


Artist: RAU, CHRISTOPHER
Title: Asper Clouds
Label: SMALLVILLE (GERMANY)
Format: CD
Price: $17.00
Catalog #: SMALL 003CD
Christopher Rau succeeds in what rarely happens in the universe of house music: he creates a dream around that one magic loop which seems to last forever on the dancefloor. Now, after releases on Staub, Laid and Smallville, the dream develops, the magic expands: Christopher Rau's debut album Asper Clouds builds up one hour of pure beauty. No trend to be followed, no invention to be intended, it is the reduced gorgeousness that lets us float on sweet Asper Clouds. Nick Holder, Theo Parrish, Moodymann, Pete Rock, J Dilla -- they all simply cached the right sense for magic samples, heavenly loops, and warm bass lines -- Christopher Rau might not connect to these heroes personally, but he belongs to that group of magicians who forms happiness out of a small amount of ingredients. His music has the sweetness and warmth of the city of Hamburg at delightful venues such as the Golden Pudel Club and Smallville Parties at Ego. After "Ne Travaillez Jamais" became the favorite track on Smallville, the idea of an album was born. Asper Clouds is simple and lovely.


Artist: LAPS
Title: Jolie EP
Label: SMALLVILLE (GERMANY)
Format: 12"
Price: $12.00
Catalog #: SMALL 003EP
"Digitaline aka Gregorythme and Laps are one of the great discoveries of Luciano's Cadenza imprint. After their amazing Rubicube 12", the Switzerland based duo will release a whole album on Cadenza and the minimal nation is going mad from the first plays so far. After Digitaline played one of their legendary live sets at a Smallville party in 2006, we are proud to present the first solo 12" of Laps aka Laurent Bovey. The straight pumpin but finest minimal structured A1 track 'Fog Off' will kick the cat for sure. 8 minutes are just too short for that kind of beast -- to be played any time! With B2, Laps double kicks it Digitaline-wise -- a deep sub-bass hymn your ears will wake up with the next day (or the day after next day). This track is growing and for sure it is a masterpiece!"


Artist: RAU, CHRISTOPHER
Title: Asper Clouds
Label: SMALLVILLE (GERMANY)
Format: 2LP
Price: $20.00
Catalog #: SMALL 003LP
2LP version.


Artist: MOOMIN
Title: The Story About You
Label: SMALLVILLE (GERMANY)
Format: CD
Price: $17.00
Catalog #: SMALL 004CD
Moomin's debut album The Story About You is an album of uniqueness and transcendence, like a meteorite touching the ground in your own private garden. Sebastian Genz aka Moomin never intended to reinvent house music, as his productions come from the heart and are related to the lovely people's dancefloor. That's what gorgeous parties and releases of the White label around Oskar Offermann and the Smallville imprint taught him: real house music is only possible within a soulful surrounding. Moomin builds an enchanting sound and wonderful tracks -- everything one could love about instrumental house music, including that reduction of groove and loop: a hypnotic theme that could last forever, giving a night its color and deepness. The secret is not only his skills but also quite an enormous selection of vintage analog machines -- whether it is the holy Roland instruments TR 606, 808, 909, the Roland Alpha Juno, an SP 1200 or a Korg Poly 61. The musician's addiction to producing keeps Sebastian Genz playing the machines every day and every night.


Artist: DJ SWAP
Title: The Walk
Label: SMALLVILLE (GERMANY)
Format: 12"
Price: $12.00
Catalog #: SMALL 004EP
"Who is DJ Swap? After his first introduction on SMALLVILLE01, Swap now starts with a first full 12" of real minimal music. Simple deep-tech grooves, deep-kickin' basslines plus superb soundwise hooklines makes these three little tracks glimmering pearls of techno music. 'The Walk' comes up with that kind of double minus rhythm ending with a dubby chordish groove to make it an awesome debut A-side. On B1., Swap features the African kalimba on the same-titled piece of Switzerland related minimal endless loop, and the last track consequence features a trippy sequence on simple bassy beats -- this one goes out to Daniel Bell, we may call him the mental father of Swapmusic.This is 100% advanced dancefloor shit for all you Ibiza underground afterhour junkies!"


Artist: MOOMIN
Title: The Story About You
Label: SMALLVILLE (GERMANY)
Format: 2LP
Price: $20.00
Catalog #: SMALL 004LP
2LP version. Moomin's debut album The Story About You is an album of uniqueness and transcendence, like a meteorite touching the ground in your own private garden. Sebastian Genz aka Moomin never intended to reinvent house music, as his productions come from the heart and are related to the lovely people's dancefloor. That's what gorgeous parties and releases of the White label around Oskar Offermann and the Smallville imprint taught him: real house music is only possible within a soulful surrounding. Moomin builds an enchanting sound and wonderful tracks -- everything one could love about instrumental house music, including that reduction of groove and loop: a hypnotic theme that could last forever, giving a night its color and deepness. The secret is not only his skills but also quite an enormous selection of vintage analog machines -- whether it is the holy Roland instruments TR 606, 808, 909, the Roland Alpha Juno, an SP 1200 or a Korg Poly 61. The musician's addiction to producing keeps Sebastian Genz playing the machines every day and every night.


Artist: SIENKIEWICZ, JACEK
Title: Living In Oblivion
Label: SMALLVILLE (GERMANY)
Format: 12"
Price: $12.00
Catalog #: SMALL 005EP
"Smallville welcomes Jacek Sienkiewicz with a deeply tripping 12" to become a mindsweeping diamond on the true after hour dancefloors in Berlin, Ibiza and Warsaw. Discover the dramatic vibe of this ultra-modernistic state of the art techno, and you will find Sienkiewicz's polyrhythmic patterns filled with soulful deepness. Jacek Sienkiewicz is a pioneer of the Eastern European independent dance music scene and Poland's leading electronic music artist, managing Recognition Records since 1999. 1996 saw his first live performance, and in 1999, his first record appeared. While not busy with Recognition, Jacek managed to release a string of records abroad -- two albums on Cocoon and singles on Klang, Trapez and WMF Records, as well as numerous remixes. His live sets played all over the world gained him an audience appreciating his unorthodox approach to the music formerly known as techno. Jacek played all the big events like I Love Techno, Awakenings, Nature One, Love Parade, and Detroit (Fuse festival), played dozens of clubs worldwide -- but also low-key art events -- Transmediale, Mutek."


Artist: MOVE D & BENJAMIN BRUNN
Title: Honey
Label: SMALLVILLE (GERMANY)
Format: 12"
Price: $12.00
Catalog #: SMALL 008EP
"After building up a unique state of the art sound for ages -- including records on labels such as Bine, Source, Modern Love, Uzuri, Warp and many others -- Move D and Benjamin Brunn come along with a single on Smallville, a teaser for their forthcoming album Songs from the Beehive. The Honey EP takes a short trip into the world of two ultraspecial producers. Benjamin Brunn and Move D cut these three pieces from their ultradeep live jams and the result is magical. The deeply kicking 'Honey' is already proved by Smallville's Lawrence: 'how crazy can the Panorama bar get!' His flatmate Efdemin prefers the 'Melons': 'that's the deep shit for life!' And Golden Pudel Chief Ralf Köster is amazed about his new ambient number one 'After the Rain.' In the end Move D and Benjamin Brunn put together what belongs together looking forward to their big album in 2008."


Artist: TASNADI, SVEN
Title: Waiting
Label: SMALLVILLE (GERMANY)
Format: 12"
Price: $12.00
Catalog #: SMALL 009EP
Leipzig's new star Sven Tasnadi presents his Smallville label debut. Deeply growing and then catching the dancefloor, the A-side is simply a hit, covered by Tasnadi's fluffy beats and mindsweeping melody. The B-side offers two minimal house tracks -- chordish and sweet, to dance the night away. Smallville's one-and-only artist Stefan Marx did the lovely cover artwork.


Artist: ANGELIS & JEROEN SEARCH, DIMI
Title: Configuration
Label: SMALLVILLE (GERMANY)
Format: 12"
Price: $12.00
Catalog #: SMALL 011EP
After releases on Jeff Mills' Axis sub-label Mission as Counterpart, these two guys from the Netherlands are not a secret weapon any more: Dimi Angélis & Jeroen Search. Sending greetings to Robert Hood, Smallville explores deep loop-techno with these three highly kicking tracks. Dimi & Jeroen smartly drive the dancefloors with this perfect EP: the A-side is a serious hit, B1 is a powerful tool and B2 is an ultra-deep techno tune with a touch of house.


Artist: STL
Title: Silent State
Label: SMALLVILLE (GERMANY)
Format: 12"
Price: $12.00
Catalog #: SMALL 012EP
Stefan Laubner aka STL has always been played alongside tracks by Theo Parrish, Sascha Dive, near the toolhouse movement genre, Jus-Ed or within the vibes of Cadenza. His music is completely unique and adaptable, deep and touching -- and it seriously hits the floor. After releases on Perlon, Styrax and his own Something imprint, the A-side is dedicated to all the deepsters, and for those who like it fast and bumpy, two low and tech-y tracks hit the B-side.


Artist: STEINHOFF & HAMMOUDA
Title: Touch
Label: SMALLVILLE (GERMANY)
Format: 12"
Price: $12.00
Catalog #: SMALL 013EP
When Bridgeport, CT's Jus-Ed played his legendary 5 hour DJ set in Hamburg in early 2008, it marked the beginning of the Underground Quality/Smallville connection -- deep house at its best. That night, Jus-Ed fell deeply in love with Steinhoff & Hammouda's "You Are," so he created a lovely remix and asked the duo to present one of their own -- a sweet anthem featuring Dionne.


Artist: ANGELIS & JEROEN SEARCH, DIMI
Title: Our Life With The Wave
Label: SMALLVILLE (GERMANY)
Format: 12"
Price: $12.00
Catalog #: SMALL 014EP
Smallville launches a limited series of four terrific double A-side 12"s for inclusion in a Smallville compilation. "Our Life With The Wave" by Dutch dream-team Dimi Angélis & Jeroen Search pumps straightforward with an elegant Detroit string thrill, based on Mike Huckaby's legendary Waldorf Wave Sample Library. Lowtec continues with a tribute to Manchester's deepest nightlife institution "meandyou," inflaming the hearts of all you low-life connaisseurs.


Artist: MOVE D & BENJAMINN BRUNN/LAWRENCE
Title: In The Beginning/Don't Forget
Label: SMALLVILLE (GERMANY)
Format: 12"
Price: $12.00
Catalog #: SMALL 015EP
Smallville presents the second edition of tracks culled from their And Suddenly It's Morning compilation CD in a limited 12" series. This EP presents a dream-team of contemporary soundscaping, Move D and Benjamin Brunn, who come up with a moving earwig -- track-y and reduced to give the dancefloor a colorful kick. Smallville co-owner Lawrence crafted a classic with the bassy and chordish tune, "Don't Forget." A tribute to deep-house, but with a dreamy, Detroitish twist.


Artist: TASNADI/CHRISTOPHER RAU, SVEN
Title: Winter/Childhood
Label: SMALLVILLE (GERMANY)
Format: 12"
Price: $12.00
Catalog #: SMALL 016EP
Smallville's darling Sven Tasnadi lightens up the dancefloor with a bright, sparkling groover with new Villalobos-ish moves and a deep emotional fill. On the flipside, Dérive label-owner Christopher Rau creates a reduced, seductive track that subtly grows to total sweetness on the floor.


Artist: STL/JULIUS STEINHOFF
Title: Neurotransmitting Clouds On The Secret Freeway
Label: SMALLVILLE (GERMANY)
Format: 12"
Price: $12.00
Catalog #: SMALL 017EP
Smallville's compilation series And Suddenly It's Morning (SMALL 002CD) begins and ends with these two tracks on this 12" split-release. On the A-side, STL brings back the magical moments to the dancefloor with a contemporary sound-design that meets funkiness at its best. Smallville owner Julius Steinhoff presents his first solo track "Something Like Wonderful" -- deeply-driving real house music.


Artist: QUINCE & BENNY RODRIGUES
Title: Novum
Label: SMALLVILLE (GERMANY)
Format: 12"
Price: $12.00
Catalog #: SMALL 019EP
Amsterdam duo Quince and Benny Rodrigues evolve an outstanding synthesis of a classic Detroit techno vibe and the newest sound technology. With a bass-blowing beast turning into deep space, the A-side is created for dancefloor magic at its best. Based on strings, chords and 303s, "Sweet Potatoes" on the B-side is a deeply-kicking Detroit electro tune.


Artist: MELCHIOR & PRONSATO
Title: Puerto Rican Girls
Label: SMALLVILLE (GERMANY)
Format: 12"
Price: $12.00
Catalog #: SMALL 020EP
Both living in Berlin, Melchior & Pronsato connect their world of sound and built one of the loveliest records in the whole universe of reduced deepness. On "Puerto Rican Girls," Melchior & Pronsato play the most wonderful Rhodes-line ever created, connected with a neverending rhythm that could last for ages, featuring the voice of Ninca Leece. "We Make It Right" brings together what belongs together -- a fluffy bass line with a groove that makes the sunshine brighter.


Artist: SMALLPEOPLE & RAU
Title: Meadows EP
Label: SMALLVILLE (GERMANY)
Format: 12"
Price: $12.00
Catalog #: SMALL 021EP
Smallpeople aka Julius Steinhoff and Dionne are back with a real smasher. This time they caught Christopher Rau. The results of the dream team's jam-sessions are gorgeous: two never-to-stop tunes which will light up the dancefloor with unforgettable hook lines. The test pressings of this double A-side have already created pure magic. "Meadows" is reduced to the essential and produced to the max. The way-deeper "Life Aquatic" is nonetheless delightful.


Artist: LAWRENCE
Title: Sorry Sun
Label: SMALLVILLE (GERMANY)
Format: 12"
Price: $12.00
Catalog #: SMALL 022EP
With his first release on his co-owned Smallville label, Lawrence aka Peter M. Kersten celebrates another tribute to more than 20 years of house music. Beyond his club influences, Kersten was mainly driven by slow Detroit jazz from the early '70s and classical minimal music which colors the palette of this EP. With "Sorry Sun" Lawrence invites us on another adventure into the miracle of a cozy dancefloor, letting only the music shine and the people close their eyes and smile.


Artist: DIONNE
Title: Back On The Planet
Label: SMALLVILLE (GERMANY)
Format: 12"
Price: $12.00
Catalog #: SMALL 023EP
Smallpeople member Dionne aka Just von Ahlefeld debuts on his co-owned Smallville label. Entering the Smallville Record Shop in Hamburg City on a rainy afternoon, you would find co-owner Dionne working on some arrangements of his tracks. The room fills up with that unique kind of deepness and beauty we already know from his releases on Underground Quality, Laid and Tersiptone. Dionne is Back On The Planet with a heavenly 3-track EP to spread sweetness and love on the dancefloor.


Artist: VA
Title: Twentyfour Ways
Label: SMALLVILLE (GERMANY)
Format: 12"
Price: $12.00
Catalog #: SMALL 024EP
The outdoor season is on the run and Smallville Records present another adventure into sweetest house music. Twentyfour Ways presents four beautiful sunset tracks by Benjamin Brunn, Christopher Rau and Smallpeople and special guests C-Beams aka Break SL and Sandrow Mitzschke from Dresden. Enjoy the essence of deep house combined on one 12" and get your soundsystem ready for the next barbeque.


Artist: MARX, STEFAN
Title: The Dead Sea
Label: SMALLVILLE (GERMANY)
Format: POSTER SET
Price: $25.50
Catalog #: SMALL 025BK
With his debut release on co-owned Smallville label, Stefan Marx presents an exclusive poster collection coated inside a gatefold 12" cover sleeve -- please note: NO RECORD OR AUDIO INCLUDED -- this is a set of posters & record jacket only. Giving the Smallville shop and label a visual face since the very beginning, Stefan Marx has created hundreds of posters and party flyers, painted the shop windows regularly and set up every single record cover. Now he releases an extraordinary Smallville issue in 12" format. Three posters (each sized 90 cm x 60 cm) including a first appearance of his band project The Dead Sea (aka Stefan Marx, RVDS, Lawrence and Birte Löschenkohl). Smallville 25 is a collaboration with Nieves, the Zürich-based publishing house of Stefan Marx and some all-time favorite contributors such as Kim Gordon, Mike Mills, Mark Gonzales and Wesley Willis. Stefan has been working with Nieves since 2004, publishing books and zines on a regular basis. This Smallville release is dedicated to Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti.


Artist: MOOMIN
Title: Sweet Sweet
Label: SMALLVILLE (GERMANY)
Format: 12"
Price: $12.00
Catalog #: SMALL 026EP
Sebastian Genz aka Moomin gets ready for his debut album on Smallville Records, this time with a remix done by Oskar Offermann of White. Sweet Sweet introduces the tenderness of Moomin's deep-diving sound. As if a whole magic night with lovely music and beautiful people could be expressed in just a few minutes, this magician of sound and texture compresses those feelings into one single track.


Artist: SMALLPEOPLE
Title: Black Ice
Label: SMALLVILLE (GERMANY)
Format: 12"
Price: $12.00
Catalog #: SMALL 027EP
Dionne and Julius Steinhoff had an enormous success with their Meadows EP together with Christopher Rau on Smallville. That Smallpeople issue has been celebrated by all the deep house buddies such as Fred P, Jus Ed, DJ Koze and Lawrence, MCDE, XDB, RNDM, etc., and it was also included on some great compilations. Running the Smallville label and shop in Hamburg, inviting the who's-who of house music to the clubs, Smallpeople present three heavenly tunes to warm hearts and dancefloors.

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